1. Wendy Anne Chamberlain was born on 20 December 1976 and is a British politician who has been the Member of Parliament for North East Fife since 2019.
17 Facts About Wendy Chamberlain
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Wendy Chamberlain has served as Deputy Leader of the Scottish Liberal Democrats since 2021.
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Wendy Chamberlain previously served as the Liberal Democrat Spokesperson for Work and Pensions to September 2024, the Liberal Democrat Spokesperson for Northern Ireland and International Development from January 2020 to September 2020, and as the Spokesperson for Scotland and Wales to July 2022.
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Wendy Chamberlain sat on the Scottish Affairs Select Committee in the 2019 to 2024 parliament.
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Wendy Chamberlain is currently the chair of the APPGs for Ending the Need for Food Banks, Afghan Women and Girls, Scotch Whisky, and PANS PANDAS.
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Wendy Chamberlain was born on 20 December 1976 in Greenock, the older of two daughters.
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Wendy Chamberlain studied English at the University of Edinburgh, and was a member of the Edinburgh University Footlights, a student-run musical-theatre group, and performed in a show with the group at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
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In 2017, Wendy Chamberlain became a member of the board of the Camanachd Association, the world governing body of the Scottish sport of shinty, becoming the first female director of the Association.
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Wendy Chamberlain joined the Liberal Democrats after the 2015 United Kingdom general election, which saw the party lose 49 of its 57 MPs.
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Wendy Chamberlain was selected as the prospective Parliamentary candidate for the Liberal Democrat target seat of North East Fife in June 2018, and in March 2019 was appointed as the Scottish Liberal Democrats' spokesperson for Constitutional Relations by Willie Rennie.
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Wendy Chamberlain wrote a letter calling for the resignation of Catherine Calderwood, the then Chief Medical Officer for Scotland, following reports that Calderwood had failed to follow coronavirus guidelines by visiting her second home, which was located in Wendy Chamberlain's constituency.
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Wendy Chamberlain stated that the creation of such a committee was "the only way to guarantee smaller parties from across the political spectrum the opportunity to scrutinise and ask questions of Ministers at this critical time".
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Wendy Chamberlain sponsored the introduction of the Carer's Leave Bill in the House of Commons in 2022.
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Wendy Chamberlain was one of three Liberal Democrat MPs to endorse Layla Moran in her ultimately unsuccessful campaign to become leader of the party.
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Originally from Greenock, Wendy Chamberlain has lived in Fife since 2003.
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Wendy Chamberlain is married, and has two children with her husband, Keith, who is a member of the Scottish National Party.
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Wendy Chamberlain has stated that her father encouraged her to get involved in politics.